Specifications

• CPU: CDP 1802B 5V7
  RCA 1802
  The RCA CDP1802, also known as the COSMAC , is an 8-bit CMOS microprocessor introduced by RCA in early 1976. It is being by Intersil Corporation as a high-reliability microprocessor...
  
   running at 2.813 MHz
• ROM
  Read-only memory
  Read-only memory is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be modified, or can be modified only slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware .In its strictest sense, ROM refers only...
  
  : 16 KB
  Kilobyte
  The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Although the prefix kilo- means 1000, the term kilobyte and symbol KB have historically been used to refer to either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes, dependent upon context, in the fields of computer science and information...
  
  , with optional 16 KB upgrade containing enhanced editor and assembler
• RAM
  Ram
  -Animals:*Ram, an uncastrated male sheep*Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela-Military:*Battering ram*Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another...
  
  : 32 KB
• Secondary storage: cassette tape
  Compact Cassette
  The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
  
  
• VIS: (Video Interface System
  Video Display Controller
  A Video Display Controller or VDC is an integrated circuit which is the main component in a video signal generator, a device responsible for the production of a TV video signal in a computing or game system...
  
  ) CDP1869/CDP1870
  • Text modes: 40 columns x 24 lines
  • Character set: 128 Programmable characters
  • Character size: 6x9
  • Graphics modes: None, but the character-set was re programmable to simulate a 240x216 High Resolution display
  • Colours: A total of 8 foreground colours are available (with a limited choice of 4 per character and 1 per line of that character) and 8 background colours (defined for the whole screen).
• Sound: 2 channels: one for tone generation with a span of 8 octaves, and 1 for special effect/white noise. Volume progammable in 16 steps.
• I/O ports: cassette tape storage, composite and RF video, RS-232
  RS-232
  In telecommunications, RS-232 is the traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary single-ended data and control signals connecting between a DTE and a DCE . It is commonly used in computer serial ports...
  
   and expansion connector
• Power supply
  Power supply
  A power supply is a device that supplies electrical energy to one or more electric loads. The term is most commonly applied to devices that convert one form of electrical energy to another, though it may also refer to devices that convert another form of energy to electrical energy...
  
  : 220V AC, 0.02 A, 4.5 W (built-in transformer
  Transformer
  A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...
  
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External links

• Old-Computers.com
• Retrospec.sgn.net - games in audio format
• Emma 02 including Pecom 64 Emulator